Improving students' ability in writing narrative text through textless comic at the first grade of SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan menulis narrative pada siswa setelah diajar menggunakan textless comic dan untuk mengetahui persepsi siswa terhadap penerapan textless comic sebagai media pengajaran. Subjek penelitian adalah 28 siswa kelas X MIA 1 SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah writing test dalam bentuk esai dan protokol wawancara . Data dalam bentuk skor yang diambil dari pretest dan posttest. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ada peningkatan pada kemampuan menulis siswa (63.6 ke 76.7) setelah diajar menggunakan textless comic. Hasil wawancara menunjukkan bahwa siswa tidak menemukan kesulitan, stres atau frustrasi ketika media ini diterapkan di kelas. Dan siswa juga tertarik dan termotivasi jika media pengajaran ini diterapkan pada studi lanjutan. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa textless comic memudahkan siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis mereka.

The aims of the research were to find out whether there was any improvement of the students’ writing ability in narrative text after they had been taught by using textless comic and find out the students’ perception towards the implementation of textless comic. The subjects were 28 students of class X MIA 1 of SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung. The instruments were writing test in form of essay and interview protocol. The data were in form of scores taken from pretest and posttest. The result showed there was an improvement of students’ writing ability viewed from the pretest to posttest score (63.6 to 76.7) after they had been taught using textless comic. The result of the interview showed that students did not find difficulties, stress or frustration when the media was applied in the class. They were also interested and motivated to have this teaching media again for further study. It can be concluded that textless comic facilitates the students to improve their writing ability.